-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2010 03:04 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-06 19:39, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
On 08/06/2010 10:00 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
The real fix is a properly working read-only /, for people who use /usr on a separate filesystem, anyway.
That would make a lot of things go but is unfortunately pretty complicated. A shared /usr is a good first step that just happens to also be pretty low-hanging fruit.
While this feature used to be just about serving /usr to workstations with very small (or nonexistent) disks, all those old arguments are coming back in the form of optimizing storage for virtual machines.
Sure, there's not a whole lot of benefit for desktop or SOHO users, but the storage benefits when you have a lot of VMs sharing the same /usr are substantial.
Ok, then, do we start filling bugzillas about /usr on a separate partition, or not?
The answer from your coworker Kay seems to indicate "no".
I don't think it's an easy yes or no answer and neither Kay or I speak on behalf of the entire openSUSE community. The discussion on whether or not this is a feature we want to maintain is just warming up, I think. Kay is focused mainly on the small desktop and portable systems - neither of which would have any use for a feature like this, so I can see where his point comes from. All of my systems are set up with 4 volumes: root, boot, swap, and home. But then I'm not running anything virtualized. I've seen a number of requests and discussions around optimizing storage for virtualization and they only seem to be heating up. I'd love to see openSUSE be able to function as a single-system-image cluster (which requires a shared root), but that's just a personal interest of mine. A read-only root has essentially the same requirements. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxcZZAACgkQLPWxlyuTD7K1bQCfc82qGU7VX31rwtEz4SK0gJcj 4TAAmgJrWi1+1fEzwMF3Lbh4Kh5nrHzB =sbkh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org